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We use metaphors to express our own truths.
- Lynn Nottage
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#Metaphors
#Our
#Own
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I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
- Lynn Nottage
#American
#Conversation
#Race
#Real
#Way
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.
- Lynn Nottage
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#Long
#Look
#Place
#See
I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless.
- Lynn Nottage
#Anger
#Know
#People
#Predict
#Sorrow
I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.
- Lynn Nottage
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#Man
#People
#Television
#Wonder
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
- Lynn Nottage
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#Continuity
#Role
#War
#Women
I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.
- Lynn Nottage
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#Great
#Life
#Mother
#Sitting
My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here.
- Lynn Nottage
#Father
#Night
#People
#Understand
#Way
Silence is complicity. I believe that.
- Lynn Nottage
#Believe
#I Believe That
#Silence
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.
- Lynn Nottage
#American
#Create
#Jazz
#Music
#Start
'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
- Lynn Nottage
#Desire
#Generation
#Loneliness
#Woman
People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.
- Lynn Nottage
#Character
#Find
#People
#Process
#Trying
The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.
- Lynn Nottage
#America
#Multicultural
#Theatre
#Today
I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
- Lynn Nottage
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#Procrastination
#Research
#See
If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.
- Lynn Nottage
#Anger
#Audience
#Doing
#Lead
#Questions
#Will
If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater.
- Lynn Nottage
#American
#Conversation
#Diversity
#True
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
- Lynn Nottage
#Dinner
#Find
#Historical
#Imagination
The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
- Lynn Nottage
#Go
#Hear
#More
#Open
#Theatre
The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
- Lynn Nottage
#Frustration
#People
#Sometimes
#Us
#Who
Replace judgment with curiosity.
- Lynn Nottage
#Curiosity
#Judgment
#Replace
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